SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Two 17-year-old students face felony charges for allegedly assaulting school officials in separate confrontations during the last two weeks at the BOCES Donald F. Myers Education Center.

Police arrested one student last week for allegedly yanking the arm of a teacher so hard that the instructor had to go to the hospital, and another on Oct. 3 for allegedly head-butting a principal, said James Dexter, superintendent of Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES.

School administrators reported the incidents to police, who responded to the school on Henning Road and made the arrests.

Police on Monday did not release the names of the students arrested, and the district would not identify them or say what kind of discipline they received. Both teens were charged with second-degree assault, a felony. The student involved in the Oct. 3 incident was also charged with second-degree criminal mischief.

"We deal with a number of emotionally disturbed children, and it's pretty rare that this occurs," Dexter said. The principal and teacher recovered from injuries, he said, and the district will continue its standard training for resolving conflicts in the classroom.